Ice-carrier.



Patented Aug. 26, I902.

B. BRADLEY,

ICE CARRIER.

(Application filed Feb. 24, 1902.

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RICHARD BRADLEY, OF BRANFORD, CONNECTICUT.

ICE-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,818, dated August 26, 1902.

Application filed February 24, 1902. Serial No. 95,348- No model-l 2'0 all w/wm it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD BRADLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Branford, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice-Carriers, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in ice-carriers, and refers more especially to a carrier which can be moved over an ice-run in either direction and in having a movable part connected therewith which engages the ice cakes and draws them, with the carrier, over the run when the same is moving upwardly, and when the carrier is returning this movable part will be swung upon its pivot-mounting and slide over the ice cakes without imparting movement thereto.

It is the object of my invention, among other things, to provide a simple and economical device which can be used for harvesting ice,where an endless carrier is not desirable, owing to the original expense or cost of operating the same, which carrier will be adapted to move and carry with it a number of cakes of ice without causing them to buckle or double up between the ends thereof, and, further, to construct the device whereby the same can be moved in one direction over the cakes of ice upon the ice-run without imparting movement thereto, but when drawn in the opposite direction the cakes will be engaged by a movable part upon said ice-carrier and the same be drawn along with it.

To these and other ends myinvention consists in the ice-carrier having certain details of construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which like numerals designate like parts in the several figures, Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view of an ice-run, showing an end view of my icecarrier with a cake of ice illustrated by broken lines. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the ice-carrier with a portion of the run, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation of the dog and its adjacent parts.

The ice-run, as shown in the drawings, consists of the side beams 1 1 with a cross-beam 2, having fixed thereon the slide-bars 3.

In Fig. 1 only a section View of the ice-run is shown, and this is supported in any convenient and well-known manner, so as to lie in an angular plane, as is common in ice-runs extending from the surface of the pond to the ice-house.

Above the ice-run is mounted the carrierrun, which consists of two side beams 4 4, which are supported in any preferred manner above the ice-run, and to the inner sides thereof are fastened two pairs of guide-beams 5,50 arranged that there is an open space be tween each pair which forms a groove within which the ice-carrier is movable. carrier frame can be of any desired shape within my invention; but, as herein shown, it has a rectangular frame composed of crosspieces 6 6, the ends of which enter and are movable within the groove formed between the guide-beams 5, and connecting the said cross-pieces 6 6 are the longitudinal tiebeams 7 7. Fastened to the cross-piece 6 by the bolts Sis the dog-bracket 9, having parallel plates 10 10*, preferablyintegral therewith and engaging either side of the said cross-piece 6, and depending from the said brackets are the cars 11, between which is mounted the dog 13 upon the pintle 12. This dog projects downwardly below the pintle 12 almost to the top of the slide-bars 3 and above the said pintles, so that when it occupies'itssubstantially vertical position it will engage the stop 14:, projecting upwardly from the top plate 10. This dog is so hung that it is held by gravity in substantially the position shown by full lines in Fig. 3, but can be moved about its pivot-mounting, so as to pass over objects beneath the ice-carrierwhen the same is moving in one direction, as shown by broken lines in Fig. 3. This carrier is moved within the carrier-run bya rope 15 or a chain, if desired,one end of which is connected with an eye 16 upon the dog-bracket and the other with the ice-carrier in any convenient place and, as herein shown, to the cross-piece 6 through the hole 17 therein. The rope 15 moves around sheave-wheels properly arranged, so that a team of horses can be hitched thereto, and thereby actuate the ice The ice-' carrier, the motion of the rope in one direction causing the ice-carrier to move upwardly in the carrier-run and over the ice-run and the movement of the rope in the opposite direction returning the said carrier to its original position. Any other form of mechanism for operating this carrier can be substituted within my invention.

In operation the ice-carrier is drawn down in the carrier-run and over the ice-run, and when the dog 13 engages the ends of the ice cakes it is swung upon its pivot-mounting and passes over the top thereof, and when a sufficient number of ice cakes have been passed over by the said ice-carrier the direction of motion of the said ice-carrier is reversed, and instantly the dog 13 is brought to its subslantially vertical position (shown by full lines in Fig. 3) and its front face engages the end of a cake of ice, and as the carrier moves upwardly the cakes of ice are drawn that falls fairly within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination in an ice-carrier; of a frame; a dog-bracket fastened securely thereto and having a stop-lug thereon; and a dog pivotally secured to said bracket and so arranged as to engage said stop-lug whereby said dog is held against movement in one direction, all constructed and operating substantially as described.

2. The combination in an ice-carrier; of a carrier-frame comprising cr0ss-pieces 6 6 and longitudinal tie-beams 7 '7 connecting said cross-pieces; a dog-bracket 9 fixed to one of said cross-pieces; and a dog 13 pivotally secured within said bracket and depending below said frame, all constructed and operating substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD BRADLEY.

Witnesses:

GEORGE E. HALL, WALLACE S. MOYLE. 

